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COLUMBUS Toronto Maple Leafs T-Shirts Authentic , Ohio — The Vegas Golden Knights will be looking to end an already-successful trip with another road win on Monday night in a game against Columbus Blue Jackets.The Golden Knights (19-14-2) make their only visit to Nationwide Arena this season after a 4-3 victory in overtime over the New York Rangers on Sunday afternoon. Vegas bounced back from a 5-4 overtime loss to the New Jersey Devils on Friday after beginning the trip with a 3-2 win over the New York Islanders.“It’s been excellent,” Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant said of the Eastern Conference swing. “Obviously disappointed the other night in Jersey with the comeback there. But after three games we’ve got five points. So we’ve got one more big one (Monday) and hopefully get something out of that.”Article continues below ...The Golden Knights have hit their stride in the past few weeks. They’ve accumulated a four-game points streak and gone 10-2-1 in their past 13 games.“I think everyone showed up,” Vegas forward William Carrier told reporters after Sunday’s game. “These games on the road, all the teams are going to show up. It starts on the first line and I think everyone did their job and … keep it rolling.“I don’t think we were playing the right way the entire trip. (Sunday) was one of our best games and we’ll keep rolling into Columbus and try to get the two points.” Sunday’s highlights included veteran goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury tying Tony Esposito for ninth place the NHL career wins list with 423 and offseason free-agent signee Paul Stastny scoring his first goal for the Golden Knights after missing 30 games with a lower-body injury.Fleury has started 13 games in a row and 31 overall, posting a 2.58 GAA, .907 save percentage and an NHL-best five shutouts.“Since the day we got him in the expansion draft, he’s the leader of our group and obviously he’s one of the best goalies in the NHL,” Gallant said. “He gives us a chance to win every time.”Other Vegas highlights were Alex Tuch delivering the winning goal at 2:11 of overtime and forward Max Pacioretty assisting on Stastny’s goal in his return after sitting out one game with an undisclosed injury.“I thought we played a good overall game Toronto Maple Leafs Hoodies Authentic ,” Tuch said. “I thought we had a lot of o-zone time. That obviously starts in the d-zone. We cleaned up our game a lot and it really showed up on the scoreboard.”The Blue Jackets (17-12-3) haven’t been rewarded on the scoreboard lately but are pleased with the way they’ve played in the past few games. They’ve dropped three of four during a season-long six-game homestand.Their lastest loss came Saturday night in overtime against the Anaheim Ducks in a physical 2-1 defensive affair.“It’s never easy to take a loss,” Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella said.But he continues to be positive in the midst of the frustrating results. Despite the recent lack of wins, Columbus remains in second place in the Metropolitan Division.“I think we should have more points out of these three games than we have,” Tortorella said. “But I think a lot of coaches can stand up at the podium and say that during the year.“I’m going to judge the team on how they’re playing. I think we have found a good little piece here in these three games of playing the right way. We just have to stay with it.” The Blue Jackets finished with 15 more shots than the Ducks but couldn’t solve goaltender John Gibson. Markus Nutivaara scored the lone Columbus goal in the first period.“I thought we played well,” Blue Jackets center Pierre-Luc Dubois said. “I thought we had our chances. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the two points.” The Washington Capitals got the pageantry of winning the Stanley Cup — the banner-raising, one last celebration with their fans — out of their system Wednesday when they opened the 2018-19 season, although a 7-0 win over the visiting Boston Bruins might have seemed like another chapter to the same party.“That’s a huge day for us Toronto Maple Leafs Hats Authentic ,” Evgeny Kuznetzov, who had two goals, told NBCSN. “Our fans waited a long time to have a night like that.”Now comes perhaps a dose of reality. The Capitals play on the road on the second of back-to-back nights against a longtime rival that didn’t have to play Wednesday and is champing at the bit to greet them.Article continues below ...“The games are already pretty tense, and this game is going to be no different. It’s going to be a fun one to play in,” Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brian Dumoulin said after his team practiced Wednesday at PPG Paints Arena, site of the showdown with the Capitals Thursday night. “Even though it’s just a regular-season game, I think the stakes are high.”Dumoulin seems probable to play after recovering from an upper-body injury late in the preseason.The Penguins and Capitals have been division rivals for decades. Pittsburgh had made a habit of beating Washington in the playoffs en route to winning the Cup. Washington flipped the script in the second round last spring and ousted the two-time defending Cup champions along the way to their first title.That left the Capitals thirsty for more.“As soon as you win the Cup, you don’t want to lose that feeling Custom Toronto Maple Leafs Jerseys ,” Washington captain Alex Ovechkin told the Washington Post. “You want to win more than one. As soon as you taste it, it’s kind of like a really good restaurant. You go there once, and you want to come back more than once because it’s great.”The Capitals will be without winger Tom Wilson, who was issued a 20-game suspension by the NHL Wednesday for a hit he delivered in a preseason game.Wilson was suspended three games during the playoff series with Pittsburgh last spring for delivering a hit that left Zach Aston-Reese with a broken jaw and a concussion.Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby was critical of Wilson before the length of the latest suspension was known.“He still chooses to make those hits,” Crosby said. “I’m sure the league’s well aware of that. It’s not the first time we’re talking about a hit that he made. … For whatever reason, he still decides to do that.“I just don’t know how many opportunities you need, you know? So, obviously www.officialcanucks.com , the point hasn’t been made yet.”Perhaps anticipating Wilson’s absence, the Capitals Tuesday claimed winger Dmitrij Jaskin off waivers from St. Louis, and he could make his Washington debut against the Penguins. Defenseman Michal Kempny is out because of a concussion.The Wilson suspension aside, both teams returned for the 2018-19 season largely intact, although Pittsburgh has touted the fact that its players got a longer offseason to rest and recover after two short summers following Cup wins.“I think everyone’s really, really excited,” Dumoulin said of the opening of the season. “You feel the energy throughout the team. I think everyone’s excited to start playing for something again and come together as a team — especially after last year, ending it on a sour note.”While Pittsburgh goaltender Matt Murray will be fresh Vancouver Canucks T-Shirts Authentic , Washington coach Todd Reirden had not decided whether to go with his No. 1 goalie, Braden Holtby, a second night in a row against the Penguins after he picked up his 33rd career shutout Wednesday.“I definitely have spent some time on this one, probably as soon as the schedule came out,” Reirden said of the decision.